The Olympics
celebrates the pinnacle of achievement for the human body. We exult
and are amazed by the speed, endurance, and strength that young people achieve
through their natural capacities and strenuous training. Anyone
cheating through the use of drugs is disqualified. At the Olympics,
we only want to see those competing who are playing by the rules of nature.
The Olympics
also celebrates the good will of humanity as athletes from different nations
compete in friendly competition with one another. The games can rise
above the conflicts of nations. Even athletes from aggressive
nations can compete, though perhaps not as representatives of those
nations. By competing in the games, they rise above the behaviour of
their national identities.
The French
opening ceremony of the XXXIII Olympics in Paris managed to undermine both of
these goals as drag queens parodied the Lord’s Supper, as depicted in Leonardo
da Vinci's famous mural. Instead of nature, they celebrated
anti-nature. Instead of good will, they mocked. In the
name of some distorted notion of freedom, they hailed the freedom to abuse
their guests. In the name of inclusion, they excluded. The
irony of France's position is illustrated in its celebrating men dressed as
women while prohibiting Muslim women dressed as Muslims. Whose freedom and
inclusion is it?[1]
Contrasting the
natural pairing of males and females in the animal kingdom to human
homosexuality, the Stoic speaker defending nature in Pseudo-Lucian says,
But you who are wrongly praised for wisdom, you
beasts truly contemptible, you humans, by what strange infection have you been
brought to lawlessness and incited to outrage each other? With what blind
insensibility have you engulfed your souls that you have missed the mark in
both directions, avoiding what you ought to pursue, and pursuing what you ought
to avoid? If each and every man should choose to emulate such conduct, the
human race will come to a complete end.[2]
This work was
written by a non-Christian sometime in the 2nd to the 4th c.
AD and represents a Graeco-Roman (not Judeo-Christian) debate about whether the
love of women or of boys (pederasty) was preferable. The speaker who
wins the debate in this work is the one championing pederasty, not the one
arguing for natural love between men and women. The Christian era in
Europe that began to take hold of the culture in the 4th century
rejected this, but it is now over.
The culture
that has replaced Christianity is not a return to pagan Roman culture but a
promotion of what was on the extreme edge of that culture and that Rome
actually rejected. Some commentators on the
blasphemous mockery of the Eucharist by drag queens, including the director
himself, have claimed that it was actually a presentation of a Bacchanalian
feast, as though this makes things better. Bacchus, or Dionysus, was the god of
wine, and a prostitution and sex cult was devoted to him. The Roman historian, Livy
(59 BC – AD 17), describes it in his 'History of Rome' (bk. 39.8-15). Primarily
a cult of women that excluded men in its bestial debauchery (cf. Euripides’
play, Bacchae), Livy says that the
cult came to include men who resembled ‘women; actors and pathics [catamites, males used in homosexual intercourse] in the vilest lewdness’ (39.15.9). While
the Olympics celebrates the achievements of lives devoted to discipline and
exercise, the Bacchic cult celebrates drunkenness, sexual indulgence, and
gender dysphoria. The symbolism at the XXXIII Olympics in France,
nonetheless, well captures the rejection of Christ for such a god, Bacchus, in contemporary
Western society. The harmfulness of Bacchanalian devotion, including sexual
slavery and the debauchery of youth, was so great that the Romans outlawed the cult
in Italy.
Indeed, the
drag queens of Europe have the stage—at least until the Muslims take it not
long hence. Then we will move from mocking gender by men pretending
to be women, to subjugating women. The feminism that erased women’s
uniqueness in the name of equality and that went on to allow men into women’s
locker rooms and sports will have come full circle with the new religion that
subjugates women. Instead of drag, the
veil. Instead of freedom, submission. Instead of
homosexual marriage, forced marriages. Yet
Europe will need to wait a few decades for that development, though it can be
found in sections of certain cities even now.
For those aware
of the changing culture, the ceremony was a good depiction of how far removed
Europe is from any Christian influence.
Nations observing this Olympics should realise that, whatever Europe is,
it is not Christian. What better than
drag queens to represent the distortions of Western culture in its present,
post-Christian age? They are the epitome of the unnatural, even the
anti-natural, and they are defined not in themselves but by what they mock, the
woman and Christian faith. Though dressed as women, they cannot bear
children. Yet they seek out children before whom to parade their
sexual perversions. (Indeed, a child was part of the mock feast of
debauchery.) They are the grand deconstructors of European cultures that were built
more or less on centuries of Christian teaching. Knowing their
enemy, they look for ways to mock Christians’ most holy institution, the
Eucharist, while their allies burn a place of Christian worship in France every
other week. They celebrate their sin with a parody of our Lord's
commemorative meal of His death for the forgiveness of sins. Not
only so, but bishops of once Christian Churches in Europe and America, now
priests of post-Christian culture, offer blessings and even church weddings to
homosexuals. Perhaps the for the most
part silence of bishops in churches like the Church of England is because they
essentially approve of the progression from the Eucharist to Dionysian
revelry. They have already done so in
promoting sexual debauchery in the Church.
And what better
country in Europe to host this monstrous celebration? France has
been dismantling Christian faith since the days of its
Revolution. It is the secular state par excellence. It
has now enshrined in its Constitution the right to kill the unborn in the
womb—another of the most anti-natural practices of a post-Christian
people. Having cleansed itself from Christian faith in the name of (a
twisted notion of) freedom and inclusion, it is now host to another parody of
the Christian religion, Islam. Yet, as the ten percent of the
population that is Muslim grows, France will discover (why is this so hard to
see now?) that its distorted versions of freedom and inclusivity, not just its
Christian past, are about to disappear. For now, the Olympic drag
show announces to the world that the West’s inhospitable inclusivity, its
anti-natural freedom, and its mockery of Christianity are in
control. And how better to announce this than by mocking the
Olympics, where natural capacities, the differences between men and women, and
the awarding of merit are on display in every competition?
[1] Cf.
Nadine El-Bawab, 'Controversy surrounds French ban on hijab as 2024 Paris
Olympics get underway,' ABC Eyewitness News (27 July, 2024);
https://abc11.com/post/paris-olympics-2024-controversy-surrounds-french-ban-hijab/15104952/
(accessed 28 July, 2024).
[2] Pseudo-Lucian, Affairs
of the Heart, trans. A. M. Harmon (Loeb Classical Library; Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1925).
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